David
Brandenberger (DB): I probably spoil my readers before a bit and now neglected them a little. However, I promise no regular messages because I know that I can't keep this. I had so much to do and
even no time to take care of you.

PP: I don’t know on
which cheek I should sit around while you apparently don't have time for me. What was so important?

DB: I don’t know
how many cheeks have an imaginary hack...

PP:(horrified)... "Hack" I beg you!

DB: You can ask
for. What do you want? Do you want a glass of water? Where do you want to drink it? I give a cloth with.

PP: What cheek!

DB: You can look
for another job. I didn't ask you to travel with.

PP: When do we go
finally?

DB: Don't be so
impatient. We go again soon – I mean: I GO AGAIN SOON.

PP: How soon?

DB: End of April
was the "timetable" perhaps also in the beginning of May.

PP: Why don’t you know
that exactly?

DB: I’ll tell you
when you have to put your pen behind your ear - you didn't bring more baggage for God’s sake. There are still some tasks that I have to do before I’ll head off(including this blog entry and
do the taxes)and the Trike takes also a little more time until it is ready.

PP: I thought it
should be ready by the end of March. What is going on?

DB: You also get
no child and tinkered on the Trike.

PP: You either! What's
the charge?

DB: There were a
few delays and family growth among the manufacturers, certainly not a cause for concern. For me this is just right, because as mentioned I also need some time more.

PP: You had time for
more than two months. What did you do? Did you launch around and waited till your hand heals?

DB: On the
contrary! I had to do after the surgery everything "left handed", which was cumbersome and required change. During this time, I could read a lot, went for a walk, that I remained somewhat
athletic and made so much it is possible with only a left hand.

PP: How was the
operation?

DB: Seemingly
well. I had heard nothing more, because the local anaesthetics did not work for me; they had to administer the general anaesthesias. But I had no pain afterwards, as the anaesthesias were
gone.

PP: How was the
healing of your right hand?

DB: Amazingly fast
after two weeks the splint was away. Just until the power is back and I feel nothing at all it takes a whole year.

PP: What are you doing
so long?

DB: Still
travelling - that's all right. Just take it easy with the right hand. I don’t have to charge too much.

PP: What did you do
since the two weeks after the surgery?

DB: Well it took
then still one to two weeks until I could make everything more or less. First, I have processed some old records of my songs in video clips to integrate that into my homepage. Later I edited then
either old recordings further, added new tracks, or just recorded everything newly from the beginning, turned them to clips to make use of. I cannot insert the music anyhow else in my homepage
and so the listeners have even something to see. Sometimes I can even point out the statements. However it is also not always, then I just add a few beautiful photos or movies. The quality
suffers unfortunately at the "YouTube"-movies finally. But occasionally some quite funny things have arisen.

PP: Do you have a
recording studio or you've rented?

DB: Neither nor! I
have only an interface(a small device with two inputs)and a software program to do
this.

PP: How does that
work?

DB: Either I can
insert old recordings, which I then edit and produce any number of tracks to or I record at the beginning at the same time two tracks. I had to learn everything and need of course not all options
offered by the program. Perhaps it could be done much more, but for the time they are only demo versions and it has here and there some faults in it.

PP: Why only demo
versions?

DB: Because I'm
doing everything by myself: vocals, guitars, backing vocals, percussion, bass, recording and mixing. I can do only the bare necessities but so I can spice up any songs something and show the idea
in which direction they should go. If once I find some musicians, who want to join in, they have a better idea how the song should sound like.

PP: You just can give
notes in their hand.

DB: When I could
write notes: perhaps. But I will not patronize musicians. Rather, I want a constructive dialogue. Results in cooperation and perhaps has the other very good ideas, which makes the song even more
interesting and harmonious.

PP: OK, but now this
is pie in the sky.

DB: No I’m not
hungry for pies.

PP: I’m talking about
the Music in the future.

DB: No, actually
it’s more of old-time Jazz up to the 1990s rock.

PP: I mean it with the
musicians.

DB: Oh sorry! Yes!
Who knows who I will meet on the journey...

PP: How many songs did
you edited by now?

DB: All my 42
songs that I've composed. Of course, I omitted the idea fragments for next song.

PP: That is not much
in the last 25 years.

DB: I am also not
a full-blooded musician, had a job and many other hobbies. But for the last two months, there were quite a lot.

PP: Where have you
recorded your music?

DB: In my
improvised Studio in the room of my mother, which I temporarily inhabit.

PP: What told the
neighbours, if someone is doing music for weeks throughout the whole day?

DB: Until now, not
the sacking threatens my mother yet, but I was concerned that there is not too much. If it was even loud I planned that the noisy work are within an hour. I can play the electric bass for example
and you almost can't hear that.

PP: Have you already
recorded all?

DB: Already, there
are only a few videos I must still create - unless...

PP: ... unless
what?

DB: One song is
still to come. I try to record with my friend Mark next Saturday(25 April 2015).Then I have a real
drum set by a good drummer to one song. For me at the same time a challenge.

PP: Is it not a bit
late if you want to travel next week?

DB: Yes, but this
will do. At a pinch I played a version before.

PP: Have you started
with the first songs and worked through up to the newest?

DB: Exactly the
other way around. I started with the latest and worked up to the first songs. So now the first ones are the last - but through my experience now this one are the best mixed ones. Maybe I have
more time mixing some of the first again.

PP: How can we listen
to the songs?

DB: Quite simply
in my homepage they are all in there with a movie.(Link: Music)

PP: Were you doing
only music in this time?

DB: Not only. I
had to convert the entire newsletter system, which took time; anyway, it was worth it as you can see. But I was not familiar with the system and made a few mistakes, but from damage, one is
wise.

Then I was skiing
on Parsenn on a beautiful spring day even once.

PP: Haven’t you been
in Klosters before the surgery as well?

DB: I was there
before, exactly. At that time I had more time to visit a few friends. This time I was only there for a day trip and the time was only enough for a few people who I met by chance. Now, I have
completed the season with a nice ski day.

PP: You were skiing
only three times.

DB: I also don't
own skis anymore, but it's more than I was hoping for. I don't know when I will once again stand on skis.

PP: Could you still
skiing?

DB: I won't
unlearn that so quickly. If you once skied in such a high level like me - it's hard - you almost can't get it off.

PP: That could be from
me!

DB: Almost,
however, is a slightly modified quote from a skit - I don't mean it. Anyway, I already realized that I was out of practice and had sore muscles afterwards.

PP: You have
exaggerated not only in skiing...

DB: Oh this! I
wanted to start an experiment. At sunrise, I wandered out the front door and was always following the Sun.

PP: Does it work?
There are still houses in between.

DB: Just bypass
the houses and try to go the next path in the direction of the Sun. Until sunset, you should have walked a wide berth. The faster you go, the greater the radius is.

PP: It didn't work
however and you gave up.

DB: I was too
untrained and my legs no longer worked through after five hours of walking. Thus ended my experiment in the new Forch, where I boarded the train to go home. But the experiment was already
interesting, one marvels where one wanders through everywhere. Everyone can try that also for themselves – but train better before!

PP: Do you train for
the Trike?

DB: I haven’t a
recumbent bike, but maybe I’ve still some time to get my old bike out for a few kilometres. The training comes with the travel.

PP: Which way are you
going then?

DB: I’ll do a few
test loops in the region of Uherský Brod. Then I will leave in the direction of Poland. Warszawa will be my first aim, and then to the East to a National Park looking for bison, through the Lake
District, along the sea to East Germany and Berlin and Dresden back to the Czech Republic. Then I'll see how it goes.

PP: There are
different options?

DB: Yes I only
tell not all, – it should remain thrilling. I decide then on the spot where I will go. So far not everything went according to my plan - so what want I plan further?